Journal Review in Endocrine Surgery: How Dr. Yeh Built It

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from the Endocrine Surgery team at BTK we discuss how Dr. Yeh built the section of endocrine surgery at UCLA. From Sydney, Australia to Santa Monica, he discusses the risks and challenges involved in becoming a leader in academic endocrine surgery. In this podcast we answer the question “why endocrine surgery,” and mention tips for success at all level of training from medical students to early faculty. Finally, we take a moment to honor and remember Dr. Orlo Clark.

Dr. Michael Yeh is a Professor of Surgery at UCLA and serves as Section Chief of the UCLA Endocrine Surgery program which he established.

Dr. Masha Livhits is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. James Wu is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at UCLA and works in the Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. Na Eun Kim is an Endocrine Surgery Fellow at UCLA in her first year of fellowship

Dr. Rivfka Shenoy is a PGY-6 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research

Dr. Max Schumm is a PGY-6 General Surgery Resident at UCLA who has completed two years of research. He is a future endocrine surgeon.

Important Papers

Krishnamurthy VD, Gutnick J, Slotcavage R, Jin J, Berber E, Siperstein A, Shin JJ. Endocrine surgery fellowship graduates past, present, and future: 8 years of early job market experiences and what program directors and trainees can expect. Surgery. 2017 Jan;161(1):289-296. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.06.069. Epub 2016 Nov 17. PMID: 27866719.

Krishnamurthy VD, Jin J, Siperstein A, Shin JJ. Mapping endocrine surgery: Workforce analysis from the last six decades. Surgery. 2016 Jan;159(1):102-10. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.08.024. Epub 2015 Oct 9. PMID: 26456130.

Kulaylat AN, Kenning EM, Chesnut CH 3rd, James BC, Schubart JR, Saunders BD. The profile of successful applicants for endocrine surgery fellowships: results of a national survey. Am J Surg. 2014 Oct;208(4):685-9. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.03.013. Epub 2014 Jun 21. PMID: 25048570; PMCID: PMC4639920.

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0:44.0	Welcome back to Behind the Knife with UCLA Surgery's Endocrine Group.
0:55.0	Today with us, we have Dr. Yeh, Dr. Wu, Max Sham, myself Rifka Shinoi and Dr. Levitts.
1:03.0	In one of our education hours with Dr. Yeh a couple weeks ago, he put this photo up on the big screen.
1:09.0	It was a picture of himself in Australia.
1:12.0	He was standing on the side of the street. He had a cardboard sign that was offering his services as an endocrine surgeon.
1:18.0	The Dr. Yeh that I know today doesn't have enough days in a week to accommodate the number of patients who want to be seen by him.
1:25.0	So it made me think about how little we know about the attendings that we train with on a day-to-day basis and how much we can learn from them.
1:32.0	It also made me wonder more about his story.
1:35.0	So he generously agreed to take this podcast to talk a bit about himself and how he built the section of endocrine surgery here at UCLA.
1:44.0	So Dr. Yeh, where did you come from?
1:47.0	I was born and raised here in Los Angeles, but after 16 years I went away for 16 years and lived in different places in the world.
1:55.0	When I was applying for my first job in endocrine surgery, I had finished my residency at UCSF and I was in Sydney doing my fellowship there.
2:04.0	My original plan was to return to UCSF as a faculty member, but for various reasons that didn't really work out.
2:12.0	And I found myself unemployed in Australia and broke, briefly homeless, that sucked.
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